Less Than One Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky, 2011

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam.

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"We thought to find salvation from the empire-state in its culture, but we fell into a trap. Culture for us became an excuse for empire.
In the #Russian public consciousness, #imperial culture is the only great culture, and the cultures of small, "subjugated" peoples are secondary, second-rate. This feeling of cultural superiority is formed by the family and school from early childhood. Imperial cultural hubris and snobbery were not alien to R. Jews, including, for example, the great #Brodsky."

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Fleur Jaeggy. Joseph Brodsky

Lo que decía Joseph Brodsky de Fleur Jaeggy: «Duración de la lectura: aproximadamente una hora. Duración del recuerdo, y de la autora: el resto de la vida»

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Fleur Jaeggy. Joseph Brodsky

Lo que decía Joseph Brodsky de Fleur Jaeggy: «Duración de la lectura: aproximadamente una hora. Duración del recuerdo, y de la autora: el resto de la vida». Joseph Brodsky

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Monument to Brodsky in Moscow * All PYRENEES · France, Spain, Andorra

A monument to the poet Iosif Brodsky was erected in 2011 in Moscow on Novinsky Boulevard (garden Ring). The authors of the monument are sculptor Georgy Frangulyan and architect Sergey Skuratov. The monument is a multi-figure composition mounted on a granite pedestal. 13 faceless schematically depicted bronze figures are combined into two groups, symbolizing envious people ...

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"Indem die Gesellschaft es versäumt, Dichter zu lesen oder ihnen zuzuhören, verurteilt sie sich selbst zu minderwertigen Artikulationsweisen: Denen des Politikers, des Verkäufers oder des Scharlatans (...) Mit anderen Worten, sie büsst ihr eigenes evolutionäres Potenzial ein."

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“...poetry is respected only in Russia — where people are killed for it.”

Here, #Brodsky doesn't come out very well.

One remark by Heaney is his poetry written in English was lame.

Auden reputedly said Brodsky in Russian must be poet of the first order.

Translation always seems to return it to# Nabokov's The Art of the Translation..

"Three grades of evil can be discerned in the queer world of verbal transmigration..."
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https://www.thearticle.com/seamus-heaney-and-joseph-brodsky-a-poetic-friendship
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Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky: a poetic friendship

Seamus Heaney first met Joseph Brodsky at the Poetry International Festival in London in June 1972. Heaney recalled, ...

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I have no real insight into Brodsky's poetry, but remember & have never forgotten the 'raise the plane of regard'. It doesn't mean look up. But somehow it does.

When I was a young child growing up in Baghdad
my father used to pop me down to The Coronet Bookshop in his Sunbeam Alpine to get my comics: Eagle, Dandy & Beano. On the drive back I always started looking at Dan Dare's latest doings. Once Dad suddenly said, put those down - look out the window. I have never forgotten that.

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from Bashō to #Yeats, #Neruda besides those persecuted as threats to the regime, from Ovid to #Akhmatova #Brodsky, many lyric poems re personal, yet speak for many. #AiméCésaire’s “Notebook of a Return to Native Land,” is a lyric poem. #AdrienneRich’s “Diving Into the Wreck”